Baling-press.



B. V. BARKER.

BALING PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 19, 1914.

Inventor Attornevs B. v. BARKER. BALING PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 19, 1914.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

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Inventor Witnesses Attorneys EROS V. BARKER, 0F GELINA, OHIO.

BALING-PRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

Application filed May 19, 1914. Serial No. 839,551.

To all whom it may concern j i Be it known that I Enos V. BARKER, acitizen of the United tates, residin at Celina, in the county of Mercerand tate of.

Ohio, have invented a new and useful Baling-Press, of which thefollowing is a speci fication.

This invention relates to baling presses of that type utilizingmechanism whereby binding wires or ties are placed about the bales tohold them under compression. In machines of this character it isdesirable to have some means whereby there will be a pause in thecompression of the bale during the positioning of a tie about the bale.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide means wherebymotion can be transmitted from a continuously rotating drive element tothe follower, it being possible to uncouple said driving element fromthe follower and at the same time couple said element to needleoperating means thus to enable the tie to be placed about and secured tothe bale before the follower again proceeds to place material undercompres- With the foregoing and other objects in ,view which will appearas the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combinationand arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawings the preerred form of the invention has beenshown.

In said drawings :-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a baling pressembodying the present improvements, parts bein broken away. Fig. 2 is atop plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a bottom planview. Fig. 4:. is an enlarged vertical longitudinal section through aportion of the press and showing the means for connecting the driveelement to the follower and to the needle operating bar. Fig. 5 is anenlarged section on line AB Fig. 4.. Fig. 6 is a detail view of aportion of the needle operating mechanism. Fig. 7 is an enlarged sectionon line CD Fig. 2.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates thebase of the press on which is erected a press box 2 of the usual or anypreferred construction, this press box having a feedopening 3 in the topthereof and being provided with a follower 4 mounted for reciprocation.

Formed in the side walls of the press box 2 are needle receivingopenings 5, the openings infeach side wall registering with thecorresponding openings in the opposed side wall. Guide arms 6 areextended outwardly from one of the side walls and at right anlesthereto, these arms being formed with ongitudinal grooves 7 whichregister with i the adjacent openings 5 and constitute guides forstraight needles 8 slidably mounted. The needles are connected, at theirouter ends, by an integral upstanding rod 9; Braces 10 connect the outerends of the arms 6 to one side ofthe press box and these bracesconstitute supports for a vertical shaft ll'journaled thereon. Thisshafthas an arm 12, one end of which is enlarged, as

j at 13 and formed with a longitudinal slot 1 1 through which the rod 9extends loosely. Extending from the lower end of the shaft 11 is a shortarm 15 havin an upwardly extended forked end 16. Pivotally connected toone side of thisshort arm 15 is an ear 17 extending from one end of anarcuate latch rod 18, said rod being extended through the fork 16 so asthus to be held against lateral movement relative to the arm 15,although'permitted to swing upwardly and downwardly thereon. The latchrod 18 is "extended under the press box 2 and through a guide bracket 19secured to the bottom of the press box.

Journaled above the base 1 in suitable supports 20 provided therefor, isa shaft 21 to which is secured a gear 22 or other revoluble driveelementhaving a pitman. 23 attached thereto. This pitman is connectedlatch rod 18 during the reciprocation of the bar. The lever 24 hassecured to it close to the .pitman 23, a spring catch 30. The pivot 31of the lever 2 1 also constitutes the pivot of a .yoke 32 which extendsunder the upper to one end of a lever 24 fulcrumed on the y arm of saidlever 24 and is connected, by a pit-man 33, to the follower 4. The yoke32 has a cross member 35 secured therein and provided with a dependinglip 36. This lip is so positioned that, when the upper portion of lever24 is. pressed downwardly onto the yoke 32, the catch 30 will springinto engagement with the lip 36, thus coupling lever 24 to the yoke 32and causing them toswing as one body about the pivot 31 during theactuation of the pitman 23. Thus, during this oscillation of the parts24 and 32 about the pivot 31 the follower 4 will be reciprocated withinthe press box 2 and any material in the path of the follower will beplaced under compression. For the purpose of properly guiding the catch30 into side of the press box.

engagement with the lip 36, guide plates 37 are secured on the yoke 32and upstand therefrom so as to receive the lever 24 between them, asshown in Fig. 5.

Pivotally mounted on the base l is a lever 38 having a presser foot 319connected to the inner end thereof and normally positioned adjacent thepath of the catch30. Theouter end of lever 38 is connected by a rod 40to. a releasing lever 41 mounted upon one Another rod 42 connects thislever to an arm 43 upstanding from a shaft 44 mounted for rotation underthe press box 2. This shaft 44 has a long lifting finger 45 extendingtherefrom and mally positioned below and out of contact with the latchrod 18, which rod normally rests in the bracket 19 below and out ofcontact with the bar 27.

Under ordinary conditions the lever 24 is coupled to the yoke 32 in themanner hereinbefore described so that, during the rotation of the gear22, the follower 4 will be reciprocated and any material supplied to thepress box through the opening 3 will be placed under compression. Aftera sufficient amount of material has been compressed to form a bale ofthe desired pro-r portions, the operator pulls the lever 41 in thedirection indicated by the arrow iii-Fig. 4 and this causes the rod 40to push against the outer end of lever 38 and brings the presser foot 39into position where it will be engaged by thelower end of the dependingcatch 30. Consequently said catch will be uncoupled from the member 35and during the next rotation of the gear 22, lever 24 will be raised andlowered about its pivot 31 while yoke 32 remains stationary upon thebase 1 and follower 4 is held projected forward. It will be noted thatwhen the yoke 32 is thus positioned on the base 1, the pitman 33 pressesbackwardly against the yoke and tends to bind said yoke more firmly uponthe base 1, the parts thus forming a lock to prevent the follower fromspringing back under the pressure of the material under compression.When the lever 41 is shifted as designated by the arrow in Fig. 4, italso pulls on rod 42 and causes shaft 44 to "rotate, thus to swingfinger 45 upwardly and to press the rod 18 yieldingly against the bottomof the bar 27. Consequently, during the oscillation of the lever 24independently of yoke 32, bar 27 will be drawn rearwardly until thenotch 29 arrives above the rod 18 whereupon said rod will be sprung upinto the notch by the spring finger 45 and, during the return movementof the bar 27, the rod 18 will be actuated thereby and will cause theshaft 11 to rotate. Conse uently the arm 12 which is fixed to said shaft11, will force the needles 8 longitudinally within the grooves 7 andtransversely within the press box, these needles thus operating to enthetie wires, indicated at N, and to convey them across the press box tothe gripping and twisting mechanism indicated generally at G and T.Inasmuch as the gripping and twisting mechanism constitutes no part ofthe present invention, it is not deemed necessary to enter into adetailed description or to illustrate the same other than in a generalway.

During the completion of the rotation of the gear 22, the bar 27 will bedrawn back to its initial position, thus causing the needles to moveback out of the press box. By the time the bar has returned to itsinitial position, lever 41 has been released, the foot 39 has beenshifted out of catch engaging position, and finger 45 has been loweredso that, before the bar 27 can start upon its next stroke, the latch bar18 will drop out of the notch 29. Furthermore, upon the completion ofthe rotation of the gear 22, the catch 30 will engage the lip 36 onmember 35, thus automatically coupling together the lever 24 and yoke 32so that the operation hereinbefore described will be repeated.

lVhat is claimed is 1. In a baling press, the combination with a pressbox, a follower, and needles mounted for movement transversely of thepress box, of a revoluble actuating element, a lever, a pitmanconnection between one end of the lever and said element, needleoperating mechanism adapted to be actuated by said lever, an elementmounted for oscillation, a pitman connection between said element andthe follower, means for coupling said lever to said element, and meansfor simultaneously uncoupling said lever and element and coupling theneedle operating mechanism to the lever.

2. In a baling press, the combination with a press box, a follower, anda needle mounted for movement transversely of the press box, of arevoluble actuating element, a lever adapted to be oscillated thereby,mechanism operated by the lever and normally uncoupled from the needle,an element mounted for oscillation, a pitman connection between saidelement and the follower, means normally coupling together said leverand element, and means under the control of an operator forsimultaneously uncoupling said lever and element and coupling the leverto the needle.

3. In a baling press, the combination with a press box, a follower, anda needle movable transversely of the press box, of a con tinuouslyrotating drive element, a lever continuously actuated by said driveelement, moans normally coupled to the lever for transmitting motion tothe follower, means normally uncoupled from the lever for actuating theneedle, and means under he control of the operator for simultaneouslyuncoupling the follower actuating means from the lever and coupling theneedle actuating means to the lever.

I. In a baling press, the combination with a press box, a follower, andaneedle mounted for movement transversely of the press box, of arevoluble actuating element, a lever adapted to be continuously operatedby said element, means normally coupled to and movable with the leverfor actuating the follower, a coupling bar-connected to and continuouslyreciprocated by the lever, a latch member connected to and movable withthe lever, and means under the control of the operator forsimultaneously uncoupling the lever from the follower actuating meansand for shifting the latch member into engagement with the reciprocatingbar.

5. In a baling press, the combination with a press box, a follower, andaneedle mounted for movement transversely of the press box, of arevoluble actuating element, a l ver adapted to be oscillated by saidelement, a member mounted to swing about the pivot of the lever, aconnection between said memher and the follower, means carried by thelever for automatically engaging said mem her to couple the lever andmember together,

needle operating mechanism normally unlower, a spring catch carried bythe lever- Ior coupling said member to the lever, needle operatingmechanism normally uncoupled from the lever, a presser foot, and meansunder the control of an operator for simultaneously coupling the needleoperating mechanism to the lever and shifting the presser foot againstthe catch to uncouple {)he lever from the follower actuating memer. v

7. In a baling press, the combination with a press box, a follower, anda needle mounted for movement transversely of the press box, of a levermounted for oscillation, a notched bar mounted for reciprocation andconnected to and actuated by the lever, a shaft, means operated by theshaft for shifting the needle, a latch rod connected to the shaft andextending radially therefrom and under the notched bar, a resilientlifting finger extending under the latch rod, a lever under the controlof an operator, and means operated by said lever for pressing theyielding finger against the latch rod to force the rod into the notch inthe reciprocating bar, thereby to couple the first named lever to theneedle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixedmy signaturein the presence of two witnesses.

EROS V. BARKER.

\Vitnesses SELINA NILLSON, I. E. SIMrsoN.

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Washington, D. C.

